This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural …

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental … innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first phase of EU ETS has exerted some effects on environmental innovations by … instead to be weak: it drives innovation if we compare ETS and non ETS firms, but the stringency itself does not matter, due …

environmental-friendly technological innovation in the presence of firms' strategic behaviours and sanctions to non-compliant firms …-free technologies. -- Emissions Trading ; Technological Innovation ; Random Matching ; Evolutionary Game ; Penalty System ; Strategic …

significantly inducing innovation within municipal boundaries. Regarding economic performances, firms' productivity is positively …